Seminars and Events
2:30pm to 3:30pm, Wed 17th December 2014
Seminar Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Lorraine Greaves, British Columbia Centre for Excellence in Women’s Health, Canada
Gender transformative health promotion can improve the health of both women and men, by seeking to change negative gender norms as well as improve health. Continue reading “CHE/Gender and Women’s Health Unit – 17-Dec-14: Making it Better” →
9:30-10:30am, Mon 15th December 2014
Level 3, Seminar Room 302/303, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Danya Vears: PhD Candidate, Centre for Health Equity
Despite the majority of genetic guidelines recommending that carrier testing should not be performed in children, the literature suggests some parents desire this information about their children. Continue reading “CHE PhD Completion 15-Dec-2014: Carrier testing in children: Exploration of current practice and views of parents of children with genetic conditions and genetic health professionals in Australia” →
12.30-1.30pm, Wed 3rd December 2014
Seminar Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Professor David Williams, Professor in Physiology & Associate Dean (Academic), Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences; Program Director of the Bachelor of Biomedicine and Chair, Teaching and Learning Development Committee, The University of Melbourne
Students are time-poor, stressed and anxious, the lectures are large and impersonal and probably at 8am, they are recorded and screen-captured, you can be ‘played back’ at double speed, and unless you are ‘value-adding’ to the didactic experience in your lectures why would they bother getting out of bed? Continue reading “MSPGH Seminar: 3rd December 2014 – Why don’t students turn up to your lectures?” →
12.30-1.30pm, Monday 24th November 2014
Peter Doherty Institute Auditorium, Ground Level, 792 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne
Professor Graham Colditz, Deputy Director, Institute for Public Health; Chief of the Division of Public Health Sciences and Niess-Gain Professor of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, Siteman Cancer Centre, St Louis, USA
Breast cancer is the leading cancer diagnosis among women world-wide, accounting for 1 in 4 cancers diagnosed. The majority of cases are among women living in low and middle-income countries. I review reasons why we are not already acting to prevent breast cancer in the broader population. I will review drivers of breast cancer risk including growth and development before a woman has her first pregnancy. Continue reading “MSPGH/VCCC Special Seminar: 24th November 2014 – Breast Cancer Prevention – Missed opportunities and why we must act now” →
12.30-1.30pm, Wed 19th November 2014
Seminar Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Professor John Carlin, Professor of Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population & Global Health & Director, Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics Unit and Data Science,
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
It has been suggested that research faces a “reproducibility crisis”, in that many claims that appear in research papers may be exaggerated or even false. A not insignificant (shall we say) component of this problem is the heavy reliance in scientific publication on the concept of statistical significance. A “significant” p-value provides a licence to make a scientific claim or report a “finding”, Continue reading “MSPGH Seminar: 19th November 2014 – Statistical significance causing significant problems: Understanding Type S & Type M errors” →
12.30-1.30pm, Thur 27th November 2014
Seminar Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Alan Clough PhD
Very high rates of injury and death during the 1990s were linked with increased alcohol availability and misuse in discrete Indigenous communities in rural and remote Queensland (Australia). To address widespread concerns about a public health crisis, from 2002, the Queensland Government implemented alcohol control strategies known as ‘Alcohol Management Plans’ (AMPs) in 19 of these communities. Although resources for prevention and treatment were promised, AMPs became increasingly focused on local prohibition, restricted access to alcohol and punitive measures for breaching restrictions.
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